Account Director

Applied Intuition Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - GBP 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading communications agency in the UK is seeking an Account Director to manage strategic client relationships and drive growth in pharmaceutical accounts. You will partner with clients to provide innovative solutions and lead a team in ensuring successful project delivery. The ideal candidate has proven experience in account growth within an agency and ideally has a background in the healthcare industry. This hybrid role offers a competitive compensation package and many benefits.

Benefits

25 days' annual leave plus public holidays

Private Medical Insurance

Life Insurance

Pension Scheme

Group Income Protection

Qualifications

• Proven experience growing accounts within an agency environment.
• Background in healthcare or pharmaceutical industry preferred.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in agency settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic client relationships and ensure agency success.
• Mentor and guide team members in client engagements.
• Manage forecast and identify client growth opportunities.

Skills

Client relationship management

Strategic thinking

Mentoring and leadership

Account growth strategy

Job description

Are you a healthcare communications professional ready to lead strategic client relationships.

Join our Client Engagement Team (CET) at Inizio Engage XD, where we partner with global pharmaceutical clients.

Engage XD is an unusually shaped communications group that creates experiences that inspire lasting change. Our family of brands is made up of: Emota, Forty1 and Nazarѐ.

You will have a bias towards the pharmaceutical industry, but all CET members work across the full scope of the XD offering.

You will lead large accounts at an XD level. This includes:

• Accountability for growth, both by increasing volume or diversifying services with existing buying points and building relationships with new buying points within your clients organization
• Build a strategic understanding of your client's business and where XD's capabilities can support
• Partner with subject matter experts in the service lines to shape opportunities and solutions to client problems
• Stewardship of MSAs, ensuring adoption of Service level agreements, ways of working and processes
• Onboarding new client contacts into the agency at an XD level

As an Account Director, you will be responsible for a portfolio of business. This portfolio may focus on specific areas of a large account, a group of smaller (<$1M) accounts, or a combination of the two.

You will report into the Senior Account Director.

What will you do...

• Be an ambassador for the agency within the client and wider Inizio organizations
• Ensure the wider agency team are set up for success on your account. This can be done either directly or by mentoring your direct reports. Mentor involves leading the way with great briefs and a clear point of view. This point of view should encompass the client need and perspective on value.

Client & Internal Relationships

Clients

• Establish the agency as a trusted client partner with both direct clients and procurement partners. This will include leading Business Review Meetings, and partnering with subject matter experts to bring value additive thinking to your clients
• Identify changes in your account and client circumstance (positive opportunities or latest risks) and work with relevant team members to deal with these. Its your role to work with your peers to ensure the agency is set up to succeed on your accounts now and into the future

Internally

• Foster collaborative, productive relationships across XD, including:
  • Build an understanding of our several specialisms and consulting the right subject matter experts at the right time
  • Ensure the nominated ambassadors for your account(s) and project teams are versed in your client context (business, brand, MSA, Service level agreements processes)
  • Promote a culture around your accounts that drives the delivery of projects
  • Navigate any internal friction to a deliver a positive outcome for the client and insights for the agency
  • Manage direct reports subject to team structure on your accounts

Commercial Accountability

• Maintain an understanding of the component parts of your account's forecast and partnering with your CED and service line counterparts to ensure accuracy of the forecast at any given time
• Work with your CED and partners in other service lines to identify growth and forecast risk and plans to compensate for this. This would also include identifying additional opportunities and having clear plans to capitalise on these.
• Have a point of view on new opportunities/ pitches and whether or not the agency should pursue them, based on cost involved vs the scale of the opportunity
• Maintain HubSpot pipelines and XD forecasts following agency process

Agency Growth

• Partner with your Client Engagement Director to plan for growth with existing client partners / buying points and identifying opportunities for growth with new client partners / buying points (white space)
• Build an understanding of the wider Inizio footprint on your accounts and how this can support XD Growth (and vice versa)
• Identify marketing opportunities through case studies and client relationships to support growth across the agency
• Lead pitches on your account and when relevant opportunities come into the agency, outside your account following the agency pitch process and standards

What do you need to have...

• Experience growing accounts within an agency. This should include expanding revenue associated with your current clients contacts but also identifying new opportunities beyond this.
• Experience leading accounts that cover a range of agency services, a bonus if you've worked on employee engagement and/or learning opportunities.
• Given the accounts in the portfolio is on pharma clients, experience of the healthcare industry would be helpful but is not essential

Just a few of our benefits...

• 25 days' annual leave plus public holidays, company closure over Christmas plus a personal day
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Pension Scheme
• Group Income Protection

A bit about us...

Engage XD is an unusually shaped communications group that creates experiences that inspire lasting change. We partner with clients to provide employee engagement, learning and training solutions, scientific engagement and capability building, all underpinned by applied behavioural science. We engage internal and external audiences through the creation and delivery of live and virtual experiences, film, digital, and immersive content.

Our family of brands is made up of: Emota, Forty1 and Nazarѐ.

We believe in our values: We empower everyone | We rise to the challenge | We work as one | We ask what if | We do the right thing and we will ask you how your personal values align to our values

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.

Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.

As set forth in Inizio's Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

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